SmartSuit | A Revolutionary Spacesuit Concept

Spacesuits of the future could sport some slick new features. Researchers are working on a concept that would change the way astronauts suit up and explore by making future spacesuits hybrid, intelligent, and self-healing.

NASA 360 takes a look at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) called SmartSuit, a revolutionary spacesuit design. To learn more visit: https://go.nasa.gov/3bMbMH1

To watch the in-depth presentation about this topic please visit the 2019 NIAC Symposium Livestream site: https://bit.ly/2KHdVfD

This video represents a research study within the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC is a visionary and far-reaching aerospace program, one that has the potential to create breakthrough technologies for possible future space missions. However, such early stage technology developments may never become actual NASA missions.